‘As good a model as I’ve seen’: MIT biologist on new initiative to address gender inequities in biotech

‘As good a model as I’ve seen’: MIT biologist on new initiative to address gender inequities in biotech

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When Nancy Hopkins joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology nearly 50 years ago, she didn’t think that her gender would have any impact on her career. “I was a person who thought that there really were no issues left for women to worry about in academia, once they were able to get jobs,” she said. But when she saw male colleagues receiving better treatment and more opportunities, she began to understand that a “strange undervaluation of women” was shaping her career and the careers of her female colleagues.